Amazon Page Flip Functionality Now On Kindle e-Readers

Amazon has just debuted a new enhancement for their entire line of Kindle e-readers, Fire tablets and apps. Page Flip is a reimagined Kindle navigation experience that makes it easy to explore books while always saving your place.

“Page Flip makes it easier than ever to refer back to pictures in a political memoir, flip back and forth between a map and your current page in an epic fantasy series, or find passages you’ve highlighted in an investing guide,” said Chuck Moore, Vice President, Kindle. “With Page Flip, we’ve taken inspiration from how people read print books and improved upon it.”

Explore your book

Zoom out to get a bird’s eye view of the book and quickly find what you’re looking for. At a glance, easily recognize specific pages as you jump around. Pictures, charts, your highlights, and the layout of each page are easy to see with Page Flip’s pixel-accurate thumbnails that automatically adjust as you change your font and margin settings.

Save your place

Page Flip automatically saves the page you’re reading in a book, pinning it to the side of your screen for easy navigation. Flip back and forth in a book with confidence, knowing you can instantly jump back to reading with a simple tap of your pinned page.

“As an author, I love knowing that my work is presented with fluid clarity, freeing my readers from the page shuffling that can cloud and spoil the narrative,” said Laura Hillenbrand, best-selling author of Unbroken. “With Page Flip, books become vastly more accessible, navigable, interactive, and enthralling. As a ravenous reader and scholar, I savor the ease with which Page Flip allows me to keep thumbnails of maps and diagrams, my notes and highlighted passages, and bookmarked pages before me as I read, so that all I wish to see is accessible with the tap of a finger and my focus never has to leave the storytelling.”

Michael Kozlowski is the Editor in Chief of Good e-Reader. He has been writing about audiobooks and e-readers for the past ten years. His articles have been picked up by major and local news sources and websites such as the CBC, CNET, Engadget, Huffington Post and the New York Times.

I would like to see what this looks like on an eink screen. If it works well then this might make me upgrade my kindle to a newer model. I have had this very issue because I read a lot of nonfiction with charts and pictures that need to be looked at several times to follow the text.

Ausiàs March

True, very important for history books when the text during 20 pages makes references to locations shown on one map

Ausiàs March

I would like being able to save a second page to flip easily (follow the text and with one clic flip to one fixed page with the map or chart)

Frederic Vandaele

This is really cool! I understood that it will be available on all kindle models

Vance Vance

Hmm…it had been installed in the last update of my e ink Kindle Voyage. I had already played with it without knowing. Amazon maintains help files for using Kindles–here’s a link to the Voyage: http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=201505850
The preview window and the scroll bar that appear block most of the page you were on, but it remains fixed in place behind them. A circle on a scroll bar allowed me to swipe my way through the entire book that I tried it on–with e ink, you need to go really slow to have the pages refresh (and the book I had didn’t display the right or left button). At the bottom of the screen is displayed an arrow head to return me to the location (page) I had come from.

Want to see something else? Amazon has a Word Runner app, available for their Fire tablets and…Kindle for Android! Unless Michael and Peter make a video of Word Runner on the Good e-Reader 13.3, I’ll put it on mine when I get it. It might be fun to see how fast e ink can refresh and how good the contrast would appear. An official kindle YouTube video here: https://youtu.be/noZ3oTgeqYE

Vance Vance

The animated graphic at the top of this article demonstrates this feature on an eink kindle. Keep in mind that not all ebooks employ all of the feature’s options. I could not get the book I tried it on to display nine simultaneous thumbnails; just one preview page as large as all nine pages depicted above.

My Kindle Voyage (5.8.1) also support All-New Page Flip. You may need to re-download the supported title to see a new Page Flip.

Martha Smith

My kindle voyage just updated to this software. I have not played with Page Flip yet, but I notice that the dots are back!!!!!! Hooray!!!! (This is a line of dots appearing underneath each title; more dots for longer books, bigger dots to indicate how much of the book has been read.) However, it looks like the “25 mins. to end of chapter” reading speed indicators are gone? Is that right or am I missing something? I’m off to read the user guide…

Mystcreater

Like I can see, the page flip feature is not available on every books. I currently have one without page flip. Is anybody know if a book without page flip can in the future have page flip added or if the book don’t have this feature, it will never have it?